CVE-2023-24809

Summary

CVECVE-2023-24809
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-02-17 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-28 19:25:00 UTC
DescriptionNetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Starting with version 3.6.2 and prior to version 3.6.7, illegal input to the "C" (call) command can cause a buffer overflow and crash the NetHack process. This vulnerability may be a security issue for systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and for shared systems. For all systems, it may result in a process crash. This issue is resolved in NetHack 3.6.7. There are no known workarounds.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nethack Nethack All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
NetHack Call command buffer overflow · Advisory · NetHack/NetHack · GitHub MISC github.com
NetHack 3.6.7: CVE-2023-24809 MISC nethack.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 503199 Alpine Linux Security Update for nethack
  • 506125 Alpine Linux Security Update for nethack

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